tHe HiNcKleY cHaLLeNge

I have been sent the email for the Hinckley Challenge quite a few times and have also noticed that many of my blogging friends have accepted the challenge as well. I just signed up today! I think it is so awesome to pay tribute to President Hinckley by reading the Book of Mormon in 97 days, since he was 97 when he passed away.

President Hinckley had such a love for the Book of Mormon, and I remember the challenge a few years back to read the Book of Mormon and it was such a great blessing.

Check out http://www.hinckleychallenge.com/.

"I take in my hand the Book of Mormon. I read its words. I have read Joseph Smith's explanation of how it came to be. To the unbelieving it is a story difficult to accept, and critics for generations have worn out their lives writing books intended to refute that story and to offer other explanations than the one given by Joseph the Prophet. But to the open-minded, this critical writing has only stimulated them to dig deeper; and the more deeply they dig, the greater the accumulation of evidence for the validity of Joseph Smith's story. Still, as has been demonstrated for a hundred and fifty years, the truth of the Book of Mormon will not be determined by literary analysis or by scientific research, although these continue to be reassuring. The truth about the origins of the Book of Mormon will be determined today and tomorrow, as it has been throughout the yesterdays, by reading the book in a spirit of reverence and respect and prayer."

-President Gordon B. Hinckley